Statistics

For WaPo Opinion, Catherine Rampell describes this year’s string of resource reductions for…

Thousands of workers were wrongfully accused and prosecuted in the early 2000s, because…

For ProPublica, William Turton, Christopher Bing, and Avi Asher-Schapiro report on a blueprint…

In Jacksonville, Florida, police arrested a man because AI facial recognition classified his…

Risk estimates change by statistical model and what that model accounts for. The…

For NPR, Jenna McLaughlin breaks down DOGE access to sensitive USDA data and…

Ideally, your romantic partner for life has similar interests, hopes, dreams, and browsing…

Allen Frances, a psychiatrist who chaired the group to update the Diagnostic and…

The Pentagon Pizza Report tracks pizza place activity near the Pentagon. From the…

While there are laws in the U.S. to protect some of your privacy…

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a reduction in data collection to put…

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen played against 143,000 people in a single game. The…

A couple years ago, Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data,…

Downloading survey microdata from public resources can be tricky. Sometimes the documentation is…

Roger Peng and Hilary Parker started the statistics and data science podcast Not…

For the Intercept, Sam Biddle reports on government plans for a one-stop shop…

For The Washington Post, Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer report on a system…

Last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new rule that would…

We usually think about mortality in terms of events that happened, because it’s…

In February, farmers sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture for removing data related…